DARK SOULS II Crown of the Ivory King
The strongest of DS2's three DLCs, if you can stomach a torch-lighting scavenger hunt through a blizzard before the actual bosses turn up.
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Best for DS2 veterans at level 120 who want the series' most atmospheric snow crawl and will forgive the Frigid Outskirts.
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About DARK SOULS II Crown of the Ivory King
The torch is the whole design here. Eleum Loyce hides its bosses behind a whiteout you cannot see through, and lighting sconces one by one is not decoration, it is the gate. That single mechanic reframes exploration: you stop sprinting past enemies and start mapping a frozen city by memory, dragging a flame through a storm that erases your landmarks. When the snow finally clears and the Old Ivory King fight opens up with knights you rescued along the way fighting beside you, it lands harder than anything in the base game's back half. What drags is the padding around it. The Frigid Outskirts optional area is one of the most openly hostile stretches FromSoftware has ever shipped, and the Frozen Eleum Loyce co-op arena rewards patience more than skill. Build variety still holds: fire infusions, hex casters and heavy poise setups all have real answers here. But this is expansion content, not a starting point. Come with a level 120 character, a working weapon, and tolerance for getting lost on purpose.
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- Processor
- AMD® Phenom II™ X2 555 3.2Ghz or Intel® Pentium Core ™ 2 Duo E8500 3.17Ghz
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600GT, ATI Radeon™ HD 5870…
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- Processor
- Intel® CoreTM i3 2100 3.10GHz or AMD® A8 3870K 3.0GHz
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Graphics
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 750 or ATI Radeon™ HD 6870 or higher
- DirectX
- Version 9.0…
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- Developer
- FromSoftware, Inc.
- Publisher
- BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment, FromSoftware, Inc.
- Release Date
- Sep 29, 2014
